About Lauren
Lauren Petrocelli is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of experience. She practices in New York and focuses on practical, straightforward help for common life struggles. Her work often includes stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and ADHD.
She also supports people facing career strain, relationship concerns, and compassion fatigue. Lauren often works with people managing chronic health conditions and disabilities. She creates sessions that emphasize accessibility and clear communication.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through what is hard right now. Her approach blends cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and solution-focused methods. That means she helps people spot unhelpful patterns, try small experiments, and use present-moment skills to reduce overwhelm.
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented while still attending to how feelings affect daily life. Lauren aims to make therapy easy to fit into busy routines. She uses a collaborative style where goals are set together and adjusted as needs change.
The focus is on real-world changes the client can try between visits. Many people choose Lauren for support navigating life transitions, ongoing health challenges, or recurring stress. She encourages steady steps and realistic strategies to build more confidence and better coping.
Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling the first session.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Lauren draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to test new ways of coping; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple presence and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can help when emotions or overwhelm feel intense.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and day-to-day challenges to choose methods that fit the person. Sessions are collaborative and adjusted over time so the work matches changing needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is helpful for a more typical session feel and visual cues, while phone calls require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins and brief support between conversations. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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